Speakers

Mark Klebeck
Co-founder
Years ago, Top Pot co-founders, including Mark Klebeck, spied a vintage rustic (and rusty) neon sign gleaming above a boarded-up Chinese restaurant called "Topspot". They bought the sign, and then left it idle in a backyard for four years, further rusting and creating a home...
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Howard Schultz
Chairman & CEO
Howard Schultz, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Starbucks Coffee Company, first walked into Starbucks in Seattle's Pike Place Market in 1981. Howard was drawn into conversation with these connoisseurs who took great care in not only finding and roasting th...
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Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra is the author of more than fifty books translated into over thirty-five languages, including numerous New York Times bestsellers in both the fiction and nonfiction categories. Dr. Chopra is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, a member of the America...
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